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Anita Ambs1, Joan L Warren, Keith M Bellizzi
1National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, MD 20892-7344, USA. ambsa@mail.nih.gov
Abstract:
The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)--Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (MHOS) links cancer registry data with survey data from Medicare managed care enrollees. The linked file includes clinical information about the cancer with self-reported data about symptoms, functional status and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for Medicare managed care enrollees. This article provides a description of the SEER-MHOS data as a tool to study cancer among Medicare enrollees. In order to highlight the strengths of the database, we also present some descriptive statistics from the database.
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